Reznikova K. Technique of the analysis of geoecological risks (on an example of the Volyn region).

The technique of complex analysis of geoecological risks which is based on the qualitative assessment of the risks' probabilities and their consequences (losses) is developed. The concept of geoecological risk is proposed as well as its subjects and objects are identified. The analysis is based on the typology of landscape functions and of geoecological risks. The series of landscape maps for the area of Volyn region, Ukraine, was composed and used in the GIS database. The analysis and assessment of geoecological risks were tested on the example of 10 landscape functions which are most often subjected to risks. The maps of risks probabilities, losses because of them and integral assessment of geoecological risk are composed. The set of geoecological priorities depending on frequency and consequences of risks was proposed. For the Volyn region of Ukraine the priority directions of geoecological risks' management, recommendations for their spatial management, and the most efficient methods of the limitation of biotic, landscape-structural, geological and soil-ecological risks were developed. The GIS database, which contains synthesized and ordered information on the Volyn region is designed; it can be renewed and used as scientifically-practical information source.